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Meet Nayland Blake's "Fursona" at the New Museum
The artist will be dressed as their official furry avatar Gnomen, a bear-bison who can change sex and gender.
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An Artist's Fraught Portraits with Her Bodybuilder Father
In a series of photographs with her father, Polish artist Aneta Bartos pushes, teases, and challenges our notions of families, bodies, and sexuality.
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Newspaper Refuses To Give An Artist Credit For Her Work
In a write-up, a paper failed to mention Christine Baeumler's name, then doubled down, insisting that it was an omission, not an error. It's part of a larger pattern of writing women out of their own work.
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Art Lands on LA's Balconies, Porches, and Yards at the Terrain Biennial
The Terrain Biennial repurposes liminal domestic spaces such as porches, windows, and yards into public art sites.
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Magic Mushrooms in an Unmagical Show
Magic mushrooms can create a headspace where erudition and imagination become artistic affiliates, but in this show, the trickster disorientation of collage is the closest we get to that experience.
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Japanese Playgrounds at Night
Photographer Kito Fujio has spent the last three years traveling his country to capture its playful, surreal, and organic playground equipment.
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Photograms that Capture Darkness and the Flicker of Fireflies
Michael Flomen's first photographs were made with the light of fireflies, inspiring a series of work that converses with rain water, earth, and plant life.
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Step Inside a Lunar Eclipse
In Lunar Eclipse, an immersive installation and musical performance, a stylized rendering of the titular celestial phenomenon will be projected onto an inflatable dome.
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A Festival Fosters Exchange Between Artists from LA and Mexico City
This year the Los Angeles Exchange Festival is starting a tradition of artistic exchange with other cities, beginning with Mexico City.
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15 Questions About Kara Walker's Latest Exhibition
Who is made whole by Walker's decontextualized images of violence correlated with race, gender, sex, and with chattel slavery and the social practices devolving from that historical circumstance?
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Drive a Hand-Drawn Tram for Cats in This Illustrated Game
Artist Alexander Perrin's Short Trip is a hand-drawn interactive game in which players drive a trolley for cats.
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How Soviet Art and Design Promoted Communism After the Revolution
The Paper Revolution at the ADAM: Brussels Design Museum unite close to 100 original works on paper from a variety of artistic Soviet luminaries.